New Content Added to PBS Videos Database
NC LIVE has added 24 new PBS videos to its collection of more than 400 online videos, including Ken Burns’ The War, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and more. The site has also been updated with a new more modern look and feel.
All videos in this collection can be streamed online by accessing the PBS Videos database through the Ethel K. Smith Library homepage at http://library.wingate.edu/. Just click on the link for Databases, Articles, Etc., then scroll down and click on the link for PBS Videos and enter your Wingate Network userid and password if prompted.
For more information, just Ask Ethel or contact the reference desk at 704-233-8097.
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Lyceum Event on March 15th with Author Elissa Schappell
The Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library (FOL) will host a free Lyceum Master Class and book signing event with guest author Elissa Schappell on Monday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. She is the author of the novel Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, a Borders Original Voice selection, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year selection, and a New York Times Notable Book selection.
Schappell is co-editor with Jenny Offill of the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. Her short stories, non-fiction, book reviews and essays have appeared in such places as The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, BOMB, Vogue and SPIN, and her work is frequently anthologized. She is a former Senior Editor of The Paris Review, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair where she writes the “Hot Type” book column, and a founding editor, now Editor-at-Large, of the literary magazine Tin House. Schappell currently teaches at New York University and the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte.
For more information, contact Luanne Barbee at ext. 8093 or lbarbee@wingate.edu.
ScienceDirect Maintenance
ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 8.5 hours from 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th to 8:00 a.m. on Sunday March14th for scheduled maintenance.
LexisNexis Maintenance
LexisNexis has announced that it has scheduled some downtime for maintenance related to Daylight Savings Time. LexisNexis Academic will be unavailable between 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 13th and 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 14th.
Online Catalog Maintenance Update
The maintenance scheduled for March 1 did not fix the issue with online catalog. The require fix will require data on the online catalog be erased and restored. For this to work, there can be no transactions on the online catalog between closing tonight and the restore (which will begin sometime after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday).
This means:
- No cataloging after midnight on March 2 and the restoration of the system
- All Circulation transactions must be made offline between midnight and the restoration of the system.
- The OPAC will be unavailable between 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., when work is expected to be done.
Online Catalog Maintenance
The Voyager Online Catalog will be down for maintenance to repair a broken mirror on its server on Monday, March 1 at 11:30 a.m. Anticipated down-time is between forty-five minutes and an hour, although the maintenance window runs until 6:00 p.m. During this time the online catalog and circulation modules will be off-line. It will still be possible to check items in and out, but these transactions will not be recorded until after maintenance is completed.
9th Annual Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library Author Luncheon with Elissa Schappell
Please join the Friends of the Ethel K. Smith Library on Tuesday, March 16, for the 9th Annual Spring Author Luncheon. This year we welcome author Elissa Schappell. Ms. Schappell joined Vanity Fair in 1994. She is the editor of – Hot Type – Vanity Fair’s book page. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review, co-founded Tin House Magazine, for which she is now editor-at-large, and frequently contributes to The New York Times Book Review. The author of Use Me (Harper Perennial, 2001), which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, she is also co-editor, with Jenny Offill, of the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away (Doubleday, 2005) and Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, 2007).
The luncheon will begin at 11:30 in the La Verne Dining Hall on the campus of Wingate University. For reservations and/or more information, please contact Luanne Barbee, 704-233-8093 or lbarbee@wingate.edu.
(photo credit: Emily Tobey)
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WU Special Collections Tapped
The Traveling Archivist Program (TAP) is a pilot project developed by the North Carolina State Historic Records Advisory Board and the North Carolina State Archives. The goal of the program is to offer direct assistance to institutions that preserve North Carolina’s historical heritage. TAP provides archival care instructions to institutions with collections potentially at risk (rare, delicate holdings, etc.).
In late November 2009 the EKS Library received confirmation from Mr. Jeffrey Crow (Deputy Secretary, Office of Archives and History) that the Wingate University Archives has been selected for the program. Forty institutions from around the state will be served throughout a series of two 8-month cycles beginning this Spring.
Contributor: Debra H. Hargett, E-Resources/Special Collections Librarian, MLIS
FOL Book Signing for Dr. Jerry Surratt
The FOL will hold a book signing and reception next month for Dr. Jerry Surratt, Wingate University Emeritus Faculty – History. Dr. Surratt is author of Part II (1985-2009) of The History of Wingate Baptist Church 1810-2009.
The book signing and reception will be held in the Efird Memorial Library, Wingate University Academic Quadrangle, on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:30am.
For more information, please contact Luanne Barbee at 704-233-8089 or lbarbee@wingate.edu.
Science Direct Maintenence
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled upgrade maintenance for approximately 12 hours between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010.
This upgrade is designed to allow the following:
- Redesigning the pages for easier reading.
- Adding graphical features to RSS and e-mail alerts.
- Improved book search by adding volume information to browse and quick search options.
- Added search refinements by adding a topics option–drawn from the keywords one selects–to one’s current search.
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